Show Hapgood Bemoans Fate Late t I ow Reviews Reviews' Fight I iy By Noran Norman Hapgood Universal Service Staff corre Correspondent JERSEY CITY July 2 R RINGSIDE I am glad I came but I never In I my life Ufe felt tel worse over tho the outcome of an nn contest In advance I I didn't have much hope hope- and still less when the rugged apparently Invulnerable form of or tho the dark champion appeared in the tho ring But when after the the terrible pounding of or the tho first round Carpentier went after af- af after aft aft- er Dempsey so 10 hard In the second I began be bean began be- be gan an to have hope that th tho graceful and court courteous courteous' ous boxer might prove equal to the theman theman theman man built like like- mountain a But you ou cant can't get aW away from tho hn hard inexorable facts of or life Ufe The things we like Uke go down if IC they lack mere physical structure and the things we we care carel for for much less triumph i in the world Where here championships and empires and fortunes fortunes' are aro made LIKES GEORGES I hope that the great geat French nati nation r wl willbe will willbe be able to Imagine Carpentier as a ho appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap to some Baro or of us here today tOay It I Is impossible for me me to Imagine to-imagine a aman man meetIng meeting meet meet- Ing InK with more credit the tho impossible task before him When he sprang up into the tin sing ring and acknowledged the applause by turning around shaking h hands In quick dumb show with wih the whole hoe friendly audience ce audle young In his every motion moton why France and millions million's milons of others have for tor him a a feeling feeling- not ot often n given i to professional proCessional fighters When ho was wag pounding Dempsey In the tho second 1 I for for one felt th that t there thero was I no man of at his weight and stamina in inthe the tho world could have stood up against f him My friend frend Bernard Shaw Is i right about his being a 0 What Shaw did not realize is that Dempsey is a good god boxer himself though far from Carpentiers Carpentier's Carpenters Carpenter's equal as much stronger than ithan his rival as a n a mule is tron er than thana a R Sioux Indian pony Dont Don't call cil cb It It I brutal I have seen cen bull bun fights fights- stoking on liners men working In copper mines men enduring the lon long exhausting marathons and six day bicycle races and I I B sa say that the exhibition to today was as mere exercise It I was as as perfect a picture of two physically physically physic physic- ally aly perfect young youn men exchanging th their lr strength th a and d skill kl as nn any ny sport in the i world affords The other things s I havo have Just mentioned often oren seem predominantly nty brutal and some times prize fighting does but bul not when It Is carried on b by men In Inas ina a as a perfect condition and with with withas as relentless relentless relent relent- less courage a as these two showe showed SUPERB SPECTACLE And as a Bp spectacle it i was superb erb Nobody No No o- o bod body who was wa here today toay can cn ever forget torget tho scene From tho thc little squared cir cir- cirie cle ie where the tho gallant glant Frenchman tried t the tho impossible the crow crowd sloping like s ome some vast billow biow up to the tho far r. r distant e edge dge included more morn people than lived Inal in a all al ll of Florence when Dante Danto was alive aUve And I am sure aura that the land of or spectacles spectacles spec spec- t acles ancient Rome had nothing ot on 00 this I i am ono one of or those thos wh who who hate hato to miss a anything that tha t happens whether past present or future Nov No that I hay haye been present at this scene I am ant much less t troubled over la sed tho the great ex exhibition cx cx- of or the Roman world I am nm glad that by chance a bunch buch of Frenchmen sat near mo me toda today Wo We generalize generalize gener seYler alize carelessly about the attributes n of nr nations We make the French Fench excitable and arid over o cr expressive e These Thee Frenchmen some somo of or whom had crossed the ocean to see the fight took It I at least as a calm calmly as any Americans would take taco a disappointment I hope their young oun countrywoman countrywoman country countr woman oman may bring them som soni consolation by carrying off the tennis in women's singles as as she seems likely to do PIT PITIES ES FRENCH Most of ot the ninety thousand people In the arena crena were not thinking of ot an any think except who who- would win win- winSome Some of or thinking few as they the pursed passed m my mj set seat and my smiled at seeing a a 3 supposed Highbrow present Md asked aske frivolously what I thought the would I bo Ton on the tho Well Ven I I will wll answer that question queston It I helps to cheer me up tip It It is entirely possible possible pos pos- sible that that- the outcomes outcome was as for tar the tho better better bet etter et- et ter In view low of the fact fact that the French since t their military victory have been too In the direction of ot force They were tremendously stirred up over Carpentier Car Car- penter and a n victory b by him over his gl gl gi gantic opponent might seriously have had hac hadIs I its effect on the psychology of ot that Is erect tha nation nation na na- na tion which is is now the problem of or Eu Eu- rope Anya Anyway that is Js how I lam am nm assuaging assuaging a n. s sad d moo mood HOPES DASHED When Ven dl disappointed wo we naturally seek refuge in lighter vein Some of or the best known Icon men in New York were sitting not far from me One was wa diaries Charles Dana Gibson who vho has been a fight fan ever since I have known him He shook his I head hend as he ho passed by Well Vell Vel Norman ho he ald we feet feel i badly but It had haUte to be be Then he ho reflected a mom moment nt We are going to match Oliver Olver ll I Herferd against the winner winner- he declared In that thA mood We wo went home bome Wo We 0 had hoped to see skill and charm perform a miracle Wo No 0 had hac at least seen one ono of ol the greatest spectacles of ot our time And as for the significance of or ninety thousand Americans paying from to 50 a it piece to see such a contest do not let that worry wory you ou The need of oC relief from Crom the more anxious things of or life Ufe reler Is a real need Just now th the need mn may have been beh increased b by prohibition i |